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A review by juliemawesome
Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tips for the 21st-Century Writer by Jeff VanderMeer
4.0
I wasn't quite sure what this was about before I started reading. But it's about your Public Booklife and your Private Booklife. What are your goals for each? What do you hope to get out of writing and publishing? Do you have an overall strategy? If not, why not?
Jeff VanderMeer discusses the role of social media and web 2.0 in your public booklife and talks about tactics (as opposed to strategy) for promoting your work, and etc.
I do wish he'd started with private booklife first and then public. That would seem to me a more logical progression. You have to write first, before you think about getting it published and promoting it!
He's also included a lot of extra bits of writing from himself and others in the appendix and I would've liked to see most of that included in the rest of the text. It needn't have interrupted the flow of the narrative if it had been included as sidebars that one could read or skip and go back to. As it is, it felt like the main body of the book was a bit short, and then had a hodgepodge collection tacked onto the end.
Lots of good stuff to think about in here though.
Jeff VanderMeer discusses the role of social media and web 2.0 in your public booklife and talks about tactics (as opposed to strategy) for promoting your work, and etc.
I do wish he'd started with private booklife first and then public. That would seem to me a more logical progression. You have to write first, before you think about getting it published and promoting it!
He's also included a lot of extra bits of writing from himself and others in the appendix and I would've liked to see most of that included in the rest of the text. It needn't have interrupted the flow of the narrative if it had been included as sidebars that one could read or skip and go back to. As it is, it felt like the main body of the book was a bit short, and then had a hodgepodge collection tacked onto the end.
Lots of good stuff to think about in here though.